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Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday Kimball Junction developer seeks public input Plan eyes a mixed-use neighborhood on the west side of S.R. 224 ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Residents will have a chance to weigh in on the future of Kimball Junction as the developer seeking to build a new neighborhood across from Redstone is kicking off its public engagement process with two virtual open houses in the coming week. The open houses are scheduled to take place on Zoom from 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday and from 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16. A Salt Lake City firm bought the mostly vacant site on the west side of S.R. 224, south of Walmart, in 2018. The county had entitled the land with more than one million square feet of development rights, but it’s bound by a 2008 development agreement that limits what can be built there to mostly technology or outdoor business uses. So far, only about 90,000 square feet of the allotment has been built, between two buildings — the Park City Visitor Center and the Skullcandy headquarters. The site is ready for development, though, with some core infrastructure already in place. The previous owners also satisfied an affordable housing requirement by building the nearby Liberty Peak Apartments. Dakota Pacific Real Estate, the new owners, are seeking to amend the development agreement and build a mixeduse neighborhood with shops, businesses, apartments and homes encompassing 1.6 million square feet, 335,000 of which are set aside for 306 affordable housing units. The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission has held several meetings on the application, reviewing the developer’s original “aspirational” plan, a history of the land and entitlements and the latest scaled-down application presented at the end of April. A public hearing is expected in the coming weeks, something the chair of the commission, Ryan Dickey, said will Continued from A-1 Caution urged weather is windy. Jauregui asked campers to be careful with their food and trash around campsites and to try to keep areas clean. “Didn’t have a bear hunt this year — lot more bears (this year),” Jauregui said. “As soon as they start getting into camps, they’re going to be a big hassle, too. That’s going to be a problem if people are messy.” Siddoway asked those heading out into the wilderness to exercise caution to help avoid stressing Search and Rescue resources, which are under further strain because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Every time we go out, there’s a risk,” he said. Search and Rescue has tried to limited the number of responders when the situation allows to expose the fewest team members possible to the virus. So far, no members have been infected, he reported. “Just don’t take unnecessary risks,” he asked outdoor enthusiasts. “Becoming stuck in the snow may not be a significant risk to your health and COURTESY OF DAKOTA PACIFIC Developers are holding Zoom open houses in the coming week to gather input on their plan to build a new neighborhood in Kimball Junction. be a welcome addition to the process. “I am beyond ready to get to public comment on this,” Dickey said. “We need to hear what people have to say about it. Needless to say, the question of what is the ‘right thing’ here is not straightforward.” The planning process has been slowed by the pandemic, with months passing between the last presentation to the commission in December and the April virtual Planning Commission meeting at which the revised plan was presented. “You could argue in some ways it set us back four months,” said Jeff Gochnour, Dakota Pacific director of development. He added that the goal is to have a recommendation from the Planning Commission in time to have the matter decided by the Summit County Council by the end of this year. “We’re probably at the 50-yard line,” he said. Gochnour said he was not worried about the pandemic impacting the overall feasibility of the project, commenting that financing for most of the aspects of the project should not be difficult to obtain, except perhaps for a planned hotel. The purpose of the public engagement portion, Gochnour said, is to inform neighbors about the project and hear feedback about aspects they like or don’t like. “We’re doing everything we can in this COVID-19 period to let them know about it so they can ... give us feedback that we take into account as we’re really fine-tuning our design,” he said. “The feedback can be positive or negative. ... (We’ll) see if we can’t adjust things they’re not happy about.” Already, the public relations firm hired by Dakota Pacific has held three focus groups with people from around Summit County and eastern Salt Lake City, home to many workers who commute into Summit County. Gochnour said the feedback they’d received to date largely matched with what they’d heard from the Planning Commission and what is in the Kimball Junction neighborhood master plan, with key issues being transportation and workforce housing. Dakota Pacific’s original plan included an underground transit hub, pedestrian walkway over S.R. 224 and gondola connections, amenities that were not included in the revised proposal. Gochnour said those items are not off the table, however, but that the revised application only deals with the land Dakota Pacific owns. The developers have also created a website with information about the project and links to proposal documents and to register for the open houses. It can be found at HeyKimballJunction.com. welfare, (but) it generates a call for service on our system. And if we have team members go down with COVID, the next call that comes in that may require special skills or the whole team, our team members are impacted.” When heading into the backcountry, Siddoway advised people to always prepare for changes in the weather and for the possibility they’ll have to spend the night, and to tell loved ones specifically where they are headed and when they’ll be back to give Search and Rescue a head start on a potential search. That means bringing proper clothing, extra water and a way to start a fire. He also advised people to bring a light source and a whistle to signal to potential searchers and to consider purchasing a GPS unit. Even if a lost person’s cellphone has no service, he said that keeping it on or turning it on periodically enables searchers to try different techniques like flying overhead with a device that can ping the phone. He also asked people who get lost to remember that they are not alone. “(They) need to know also that we’re coming for them. If they’re reported missing or overdue, there will be a SAR response,” he said. “Whether you believe it’s for you or not, get out and try to signal that helicopter, try to signal that plane, listen, the searchers are going to be calling for you, blowing whistles. Look for lights on ridges, that kind of thing. We’re going to be coming for you.” Continued from A-1 than during the earlier recession. “If you look back to like the ’08-’09 recession, no, we maintained, you know, full terrain, full resorts open, even though we had, you know, lower demand. Now it’s possible that with COVID we could see even lower demand. ... But we think we can absolutely still be profitable, you know, once, once we get into the season,” Katz said. The Katz comments were some of the most extensive made publicly by a leading figure in the ski industry regarding the next ski season. They were made nearly three months after the 2019-2020 ski season abruptly ended several weeks early as the mountain resorts closed amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. The impact of the early closure of PCMR and Deer Valley Resort rocked the Park City-area economy. Ski season previewed apart from that, no, we do open our resorts and we do open our terrain. And we want people who come to get the full experience ... and that’s something we are going to do for next year,” Katz said. He described that Vail Resorts continued to operate with all the slopes open during the recession more than a decade ago even as skier and snowboarder numbers dropped. Katz said a larger drop could occur in the upcoming ski season Continued from A-1 Arts fest decision leadership of the Kimball Art Center “has an imminent decision on the future of the” event in 2020. The report says the Kimball Art Center, with support of City Hall staffers, has “explored several options not limited to cancelling, relocating, or modifying the event.” It says City Hall staffers are “supportive of an amended Festival with greater social distancing and likely lower attendance as a result of COVID-19.” The report also indicates the Kimball Art Center is “interested in hosting the 2020 Festival on Main Street, and staff believes it can be held responsibly and safely.” The Kimball Art Center “has been engaging with the Summit County Health Department on operational approaches to mitigate health concerns and respect social distancing requirements,” the report says. The City Council meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. It will be held remotely and will be broadcast on the municipal website, parkcity.org. #100 1375 Woodside Ave Silver Cliff Village, Old Town Convenient Banking PRICE REDUCTION! 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